Jenkins of Mexico : how a Southern farm boy became a Mexican magnate /
"In the city of Puebla there lived an American who made himself into the richest man in Mexico. Driven by a steely desire to prove himself--first to his wife's family, then to Mexican elites--William O. Jenkins rose from humble origins in Tennessee to build a business empire in a country e...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Coming of age in Tennessee
- Fortune-seeking in Mexico
- How to get rich in a revolution
- Kidnapped, jailed, vilified
- Empire at Atencingo
- Resistance at Atencingo
- With Maximino
- Mining the Golden Age of Mexican cinema
- Enterprise, profiteering, and the death of the Golden Age
- The Jenkins foundation and the battle for the soul of the PRI
- Jenkins' earthly afterlife
- Epilogue: the mixed legacy of William O. Jenkins.
